The phrase "scant thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe when someone has given very little or no thought to something. For example: I gave scant thought to the consequences of my actions.
Their mission was to keep the computing power plants humming, while scant thought was given to rising costs and energy consumption.
It got everyone back together for the upcoming end game but it did so with scant thought as to whether it was fair or satisfyingly dramatic.
They played with the phrase "Senator Clinton," giving scant thought to the Long Island Republican, Rick Lazio, who expressed his intention yesterday to run in Mr. Giuliani's place.
E.U. policy makers are so busy building firewalls within the 17-nation single currency area and devising temporary fixes to avert immediate disaster that scant thought is being given to how the story might end.
Because I had no idea what a hall of residence was, and because I was – and still am – a gifted procrastinator, I'd given scant thought to the practicalities of living in London on a grant.
Western zoos poured millions of dollars into panda displays – pandas cost $1m a year to borrow from China – with scant thought for their conservation, while China's domestic panda work was stultified by bureaucracy and paranoia.
All this was fascinating, but I had one thought as Doherty toured the world in a series of scruffy, ill-pressed outfits, paying scant attention to personal grooming.
Electricity is scant, and the thought of spending the night in the unheated maternity ward makes Lama restlessly shake her black bob from side to side.
The main place where the book discusses psychology is a chapter called "Thought Experiments on Thinking," a scant nine pages devoted to "thought experiments" that Kurzweil seems to have performed while sitting in his arm chair.
But aside from the startling flashes of vulnerability that tear the carapace of Ms. Johansson's Maggie, there's scant evidence of subtext, of the thoughts behind the blustery facades.
This biography scants gossip to focus on Woolf's study of the mind's life, rendering thought and feeling by words.
